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Anti-immigrant crusaders in the United States scapegoat Mexicans. Never mind that Mexicans provide the cheap labor that is to the US economy what rock cocaine is to a crack head. Likewise, anti-drug crusaders scapegoat Latino drug traffickers. Never mind that Latino drug traffickers are only supplying the US demand that fuels the never-ending war on… Read more.
Poor Gordon Brown. He has suffered more humiliation in the international media lately than any British prime minister in recent history. Perhaps you’ve seen the viral video of him being dressed down by British Member of the European Parliament Daniel Hannan. He ended his tongue-lashing by calling Brown “the devalued prime minister of a devalued… Read more.
For me, it was a profound indictment of American education that only one of my (white) professional colleagues had ever heard of John Hope Franklin before President Bill Clinton appointed him in 1997 to chair the President’s Initiative on Race. After all, these were all practicing attorneys who graduated from prestigious liberal arts universities. Never… Read more.
[Author’s note: I am mindful that the unfolding political drama in my home country has been the subject of many of my commentaries lately. But we are experiencing a constitutional crisis there that is the equivalent of the impeachments of Nixon and Clinton combined. So please bear with me as I do whatever I can… Read more.
Evidently, researchers have determined that President Obama has made more media appearances at this point in his presidency than any of his predecessors. In fact, some critics can be forgiven the impression that he’s doing more to compete with the likes of the “Octomom” and Lindsay Lohan for media coverage than to fix the ailing… Read more.
Westerns are incredulous by South Africa’s decision to ban the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, from attending a peace conference for Nobel laureates that is scheduled to convene in Johannesburg on Friday. But nobody familiar with recent developments in South African politics should be. A few years ago, communists and other left-wing factions in the… Read more.
For decades now, the traditional teachings of the Catholic Church on things like birth control, pre-marital sex and abortion have been falling among thorns in the developed world. As a result, millions of Catholics remain affiliated with the church in name only. And of course millions more have become disaffected in recent years because of… Read more.
The invariably politically correct Obama made this gaffe on Thursday when he made an unprecedented appearance for a sitting US president on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Of course nobody believes President Obama harbors any prejudice against children with disabilities. But this gaffe betrays an ignorance that I suspect is as embarrassing for him as… Read more.
